{"id":187092,"date":"2026-05-08T11:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T11:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/187092\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T11:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T11:28:09","slug":"pittsburgh-bureau-of-ems-rescues-two-people-trapped-on-monongahela-incline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/187092\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Bureau of EMS rescues two people trapped on Monongahela Incline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of people had to be rescued from the Monongahela Incline just before midnight on Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the Pittsburgh Bureau of EMS, Port Authority Police requested help to assist in evacuating both the upper and lower cars as they became stalled.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/moninclinerescue.png#.png\" alt=\"moninclinerescue.png \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  The Pittsburgh Bureau of EMS Technical Rescue Team conducts high-angle rope rescue\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                Pittsburgh Bureau of EMS\/Facebook<\/p>\n<p>Both of the stalled cars were approximately 80 feet from their respective stations, with one person trapped in each car.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For about an hour and a half, medics from EMS Rescue 1, Rescue 2, and the Technical Rescue Team conducted what was described as a &#8220;high-angle rope rescue&#8221; and were able to get both people out of the cars.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Neither was injured, and they were removed from the cars at about 1 a.m. Friday morning. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As of about 6 a.m. Friday morning, Pittsburgh Regional Transit said that the Monongahela Incline has returned to normal operation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A couple of people had to be rescued from the Monongahela Incline just before midnight on Thursday.\u00a0 According&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74,2187],"class_list":["post-187092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-regional-transit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}